Man On A Street

I'm at my old college today -- Visca, Baybay, Leyte. I figured i'd spend the night here before going to Tacloban Saturday. I'd like to ask around for anyone experienced in building biogas digesters to fuel electric generators. I'm on an errand for my sister heheh. Had dinner with 3 campus paper editors (it was like a mini college editors' congress hehe) and they showed me around the publication office. Ahh, same old computers I remember from 3 years ago... still running on pirated stuff ... except that time when most computers abruptly switched to Linux... I discovered PCLinuxOS in 2004, at the height of the Microsoft-Business Software Alliance raid rumours at Visca. Heheh, everybody was scared because the penalty for being caught with pirated software was confiscation of your computer plus P100,000 fine for every pirated title identified -- including windoze. Some even hid their pirated CDs up the kisame. Over a weekend, many PC units in Visca were converted to Bay...

Seems a spammer got hold of my Yahoo!Mail addresses—or worse, my password—using my email address, it forwarded this message to several (but not all) contacts in my Yahoo! contacts list: Dear friend ~~ 2--p I have a Japanese friend who tells me that he works in a Japanese company. I visited the company he works for and found their products quite favorable. And the products have many versions, such as European version, American version, and the Asian version etc. All the company's products have photos in the internet.I suggest you take a look in this website: www.zol-trade.com. You will certainly be interested in some products. Thank you k--g o--^ Yahoo! Answers ( 'dear friend' emails ) says my computer and email password could have been compromised by a malicious program (which records keystrokes) and now part of a botnet. A TechWorld article tells me to get rid of Windows since it's a Window's problem. I looked in the Yahoo!Mail 'sent' box—the spam were sen...

Today I needed to get a new postal ID and since I'm new to Cebu (2 years isn't long enough), i googled. Found this nice tutorial courtesy of Maris—turns out to be a friend of a friend back when I worked at Convergys Banawa. Very thorough tutorial, i managed to follow da directions to where da postmen were hanging out. It was a hot and sticky 2pm so many of the postmen had their shirts off. Felt like a warehouse. The postman for our sitio (Sitio Verde, Labangon) wasn't on his table yet so I chatted with the postman-next-table. The conversation gave me hints on how getting a Cebu postal ID goes: "How long have you been living at Labangon? "2 years." "So you're not eligible for voting in the barangay yet!?" "Uhh..." [dunno] "Sez here you live in an apartment—how long?" "2 years . . ." "I usually don't approve applications with apartment addresses—people there don't last long, some get their IDs and disapp...